Darcy Robinson Anecdote

September 28th, 2007

Tom Grace told me a funny story involving Darcy Robinson that I thought I would share. I couldn’t work it into the story for tomorrow’s paper and it is actually more of a Tom Kostopoulos story, but it’s funny nonetheless.

Grace, Robinson, Kostopoulos and Brooks Orpik went on a school visit. For as quiet and straight-laced as Kostopoulos seemed to be, he could pop off with a good practical joke every now and then.

So when Kostopoulos took the microphone to talk about the importance of education, he informed students that all of the Penguins on the panel were well-rounded individuals with interests other than hockey.

Orpik, Kostopoulos said, was a professional trombone player, Grace was an outstanding magician, and Robinson was Canada’s national champion birdhouse builder, which brought a huge round of applause from the shop teacher.

Of course, Orpik had never touched a trombone, Grace couldn’t do a card trick and Robinson never built a birdhouse, but why let that get in the way of a good story?

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